New York Year by Year: A Chronology of the Great Metropolis - Jeffrey A. Kroessler - Google Books

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Winner, The New York Public Library, Best of Reference Award, 2002 If any city deserves a complete chronology, it is surely New York. New York, Year by Year is a cornucopia of the familiar and the forgotten, the historic and the ephemeral, the heroic and…